Following this, the committee agreed on the construction of an underground parking lot for car and motorbike under the zoo that is located at the intersection of Nguyen Thi Minh Khai and Nguyen Binh Khiem Street, covering an area of 16,770 hectares with its capacity of 3,000 bikes and 100 cars.

The zoo garden’s all trees shall be preserved during the work- in- progress. Bamboo trees will be planted along roads, near animal cages, the parking area, game areas and restaurants to decrease noise which causes effect to living environment of animals.

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Chairman of HCMC People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong and his deputy Tran Vinh Tuyen yesterday inspected the construction site of the first metro line, Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien, in efforts to solve difficulties for the project to be built on schedule by 2020.